Archive For October, 2012
NEW DELHI: Delivery of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov to the Indian Navy has been further delayed by several months because of technical troubles with its engines detected during the ongoing sea trials. Originally meant to be delivered to India in 2008, the carrier, renamed INS Vikramaditya, and was to be given by December […]
Last month, more than 70 years since the dream of sustained hypersonic flight was first born out of Nazi designs for a manned bomber with a global reach, the US Air Force’s latest experimental hypersonic aircraft was lost during an attempt to maintain Mach 6 for merely five minutes. Hypersonic (high supersonic) speeds are those […]
India’s quest for the moon, by the name of “Chandrayaan II,” planned for 2013-14, may be delayed. Indicating this at a news conference organised after the successful launch of “PSLV-C21”, the 100th mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), ISRO chief Dr K Radhakrishnan said that while ISRO was keen on making the second “moon […]
A new type of ‘Ninja style’ aircraft that spins 90 degrees in air for efficient faster-than-sound flight and “virtually zero sonic boom” has been granted $100,000 by NASA for further development. The plane is created in a way that will allow it to take off from the ground, and then turn on its side once […]
Dr V.K. Saraswat, Chief of Defence Research and Development Organisation, said that Indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has entered into final operational clearance phase and will be inducted into the Indian Air Force by December 2013. Speaking to presspersons after participating in the Graduation Day programme at the Siddaganga Institute of Technology. Dr. […]
The squadron known as the ‘Desert Tigers’, was flying the MIG- 23 till 2005 and was number-plated after the aircraft were phased out from IAF Scaling up its presence along the Pakistan border, the Indian Air Force inducted its frontline fighter aircraft SU-30MKI at the Halwara air base in Punjab. This is the first squadron […]
In a reflection of China’s increasing maritime ambitions, the country commissioned its first aircraft carrier in an event hailed by top officials as being of “far-reaching significance” and coming amid rising regional tensions. The unveiling of the 300 metre-long Liaoning, a refurbished and upgraded version of the Soviet carrier Varyag which China purchased from Ukraine, […]
The country’s largest laboratory cluster – the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), with 38 labs across the country under its fold — is gearing up for its 70th birthday this week. It’s opening a new lab just across the one inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru back in the 1950s. The last time CSIR started […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation has started working on a plan to hand over production of launch vehicles and communication satellites to industry, its Chairman and Secretary, Department of Space, Dr K. Radhakrishnan, said here. Dr. Radhakrishnan exhorted participants at the inauguration of the four-day World Space Biz conference and the accompanying Bengaluru Space Exhibition. […]
The nation should see 10 space missions in the next 12 months, according to Dr K. Radhakrishnan, Chairman of ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space. “We have lined the 10 up through September 2013, besides the ambitious Mars orbiter that may also take place by then,” said Dr. Radhakrishnan after inaugurating a two-yearly space industry […]